Medicine (Great Inventions)

by PaulDowswell (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2001

  $4.53

  A look at key inventions that have shaped the way we live. It investigates inventions in the area of medicine, and follows the development and progression of items within this area. It also discusses life before the inventions, their impact, key players, and their mistakes and successes. There are biography boxes of key people, bad inventions boxes for particularly disastrous inventions that didn't work, key date charts and how it works diagrams.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $4.53

  This fascinating new series looks at key inventions that have shaped the way we live. Each book takes a specific area of invention, such as communications, and follows the development and progression of items within this, such as printing presses and satellites. The books cover life before the invention, its impact, key players, their mistakes and successes and the breakthough's later evolution. Each book contains: - biography boxes of key people named in the science curriculum - bad inventions boxes for particularly disastrous inventions that didn't work - key date charts - how it works diagrams